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...system of faculty reports takes the place of a conventional grading system. These reports--they vary from a paragraph to a page in each course--are sent to the students twice a year but not to the parents. Slightly less detailed reports are sent to the graduate schools to which some of the girls eventually go. The principal virtue of excluding grades is that the students tend to equate success with the accumulation of ideas rather than with the accumulation of good reports...
...other city in the U.S. Manhattan papers have shown little inclination to depart from the traditional black-and-white news package, and point, with some justice, to the poor quality and high cost of newspaper color and to reader indifference as reasons for staying in the black. A full-page color ad in the Chicago Tribune costs $6,324.72, v. $4,374.72 for black and white. Color equipment may require an investment of as much...
...between architecture and painting, in which both come out badly maimed," declared Art Critic John Canaday on Page One of the New York Times; "The most beautiful building in America," retorted Critic Emily Genauer in the New York Herald Tribune. "A building that should be put in a museum to show how mad the 20th Century is," editorialized the New York Daily Mirror. "Mr. Wright's greatest building, New York's greatest building." said Architect Philip Johnson, "one of the greatest rooms of the 20th century." "Frank has really done it," snapped one artist. "He has made painting...
...Authority. Printed as a 23-page brochure by Bishop Dibelius' friends, the bishop's birthday letter exploded like a bomb in both Germanys. "The most sensational and most unsettling for church members of all the sensational and unsettling things [Dibelius] has said, preached and written," spluttered the West German Lutheran biweekly Stimme der Gemeinde (Voice of the Congregation). Bishop Lilje recoiled from his surprise package. "I cannot share Dibelius' views,'' he said. "One can't drive down the street any way one wants to." The board of managers of Dibelius' own Evangelical Church...
...page pamphlet is the work of a five-man committee appointed by the Archbishop in March 1958 under the chairmanship of J. T. (for John Traill) Christie, principal of Oxford's Jesus College. The committee members (a lawyer, a psychiatrist, a philosopher and a theologian) investigated the subject of self-destruction from almost every conceivable angle-historical, legal, medical, moral-and came to the conclusion that considerably more charity is needed all around...